Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!fp1-education-14.uoregon.edu!user From: larryhat@oregon.uoregon.edu (Larry Hatmaker) Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.software Subject: Re: Encyclopaedia Recommendation Followup-To: comp.publish.cdrom.software,alt.cd-rom Date: 1 Apr 1994 23:33:48 GMT Organization: Center for Electronic Studying Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <1994Mar26.004734.17964@PacBell.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-education-14.uoregon.edu In article <1994Mar26.004734.17964@PacBell.COM>, jcwasik@srv.PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) wrote: > In an article gbsowrey@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Son Of Worf) writes: > >Our campus computer store is selling Microsoft Encarta for $120. > >Considering that this is (from what I understand) and excellent > >product, with a VERY reasonable price, I almost bought it. > >However, the salesperson pointed out that it may not be quite as > >good as I think it is. > > Re: 1994 Encarta > > I have it and like it. But I think it's aimed at Lower High School > grades or smart elementary school kids. That $120 I assume are > Canadian dollars, because I only paid $79.00 US dollars for mine. > And I have seen it in lots of mail order catalogs for about US$88. I've got the Mac Version on order, so we'll see what it looks like. -- Larry Hatmaker Center for Electronic Studying University of Oregon